Carl Friedrich Uebelen

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Carl Friedrich Uebelen (born August 25, 1872 in Lörrach ; † August 14, 1951 ) was a German textile industrialist and industrial association official.

Life

Uebelen attended grammar school in Lörrach, completed a commercial apprenticeship in Geneva and completed his training in various companies in Austria, France and England. After being a part-owner of Heymann, Welter & Co in Berlin for a time, he became general director of the mechanical weaving mill in Linden, founded in 1837, in 1909 . In 1913 he was promoted to Kgl. Prussia. Commerzienrat appointed. Under his leadership, the next largest competitors for velvet production, the Berliner Velvetfabrik M. Mengers & Söhne AG and GA Fröhlichs Sohn AG (Warnsdorf, Czechoslovakia) were united under the roof of the Lindener Weaving Mill to form a group called " Lindener Samt-Union " , which employed around 4000 people around 1930.

Carl Friedrich Uebelen was Vice President of the Hanover Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chairman of the Presidium of the German-American Business Association (Berlin), Chairman of the Employers' Association of the Textile Industry (Hanover), Member of the Board of the Reich Association of German Industry (Berlin), Member and Assistant to the District Committee of Hanover Reichsbank. He acted as chairman of the supervisory board at Spinnerei Haagen & Rötteln AG (Haagen in Baden). He was also a member of the supervisory board of the Bank for Foreign Trade AG (Berlin), Deutsche Kreditsicherung AG (Berlin), Voigt & Haeffner AG (Frankfurt am Main) and the Vereinigte Elektrotechnische Fabriken FW Busch und Gebrüder Jaeger AG (Lüdenscheid).

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